Frank Carlson Library

Arizona Territory Ranger Sam Burrack is sent to retrieve the sheriff of Big Silver, Arizona, and escort him to Yuma. Sheriff Sheppard Stone once saved the life of Territory Judge Albert Long, but the judge has heard stories of Stone turning into a reckless drunk--stories that are confirmed when Burrack rides into town. Holed up in his office on a days-long whiskey bender, Stone has been terrifying the townsfolk and firing bullets into the street....

"Posing as an outlaw who stole the Tahzo sheriff's horse, Red Clark goes to the outlaw town of Lelargo to bring back the man who had killed the daughter of a local rancher. But the town is suspicious of newcomers and will try to protect their own."--

When Red Clark's buddy, Shorty Dock, asked him to ride over to Wesco and search for a black-bearded man who had an annoying habit of shooting good men from ambush, the hard-riding redhead soon found himself in a tangle of trouble. But Red Clark's trigger talk carries conviction, and when the black-bearded stranger was finally unmasked, Red had things well in hand. Gordon Young has exercised all his notable skill in this tightly knit action story that...

"Locked in a deadly feud, cowboys Randy Locke and Frank Farmer have spent decades attempting to annihilate each other any time they are within shooting distance. So far, the men are even. One of Frank's bullets has given Randy a permanent limp. Vain Frank wears a prosthetic ear, his own lost to Randy's assault. If either of them remembers the original reason for the feud, it seems moot now. Their quest for revenge has led them on a merry chase through...

The Tree Ranch wants control of the whole range, and is ready to do absolutely anything to get it - forcing out neighboring homesteaders by deception, bribery, and threats of violence.

"It looked like Denver Jones was going to end his young life on the end of a Texas rope. Arrested for robbing the local bank and slitting the throat of its cashier, his guilt seems certain when three men deliver him from jail and a train is robbed the next day. The sheriff, who hates Jones for personal reasons, takes an armed, lynch-minded posse into the hills - and the only man in Texas who will stand by the fugitive is a Ranger named Shelley Raines...

"They don't fear killing, dying...or any man's law. From Illinois to Colorado, they've carved out their own personal hunting ground through terror and bone-cold viciousness. Now they have staked brutal claim to 'abandoned' land rich in gold--and will do anything to keep it... John Savage has destroyed the gang that murdered his family. Now he wants to work the land his kin died for--and find some measure of peace. But his desire for just retribution...

Someone is hell-bent on killing Detective Simms of the Pinkerton Detective Agency. While investigating a clutch of brutal murders, Simms is dragged into a life-and-death struggle with a bunch of desperadoes, numerous Indians, a gunfighter and a double-crossing US Marshall by the name of Dixon. This will not be the easiest time of his life, nor the most peaceful. By the end of it, a lot of people will end up dead. All Simms needs to do is make sure...

"Sheriff Jess Casey and his oddball band of sidekicks have pulled off the impossible, taming Hell's Half Acre, the most lawless town in Texas, infamous for murder, mayhem, prostitution, and every random act of bloodshed imaginable. Now the no-good politicians in Austin have decided it's cheaper to dump hordes of criminals on Jess Carey's town than hanging 'em. In one dreadful week it seems as if the gates of Hell have burst open. Freed outlaws, gunslingers,...

At once an epic account of an improbable romance and a retelling of an iconic American tale, The Last Woman Standing recalls the famed gunfight at the O.K. Corral through the eyes of a spunky heroine who sought her happy ending in a lawless outpostwith a fierce will and an unflagging spirit.